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This year the written will be held on Friday 19 March. Mr Martin Richter (Bonn), the Chairman and Mr Lindsay Muir (co-chairman) are grateful to our IT colleagues at Asszisztencia for working so hard to allow this take place securely on line.
The oral exams will also be on line (via Zoom) after the success of last year’s diet.
If you are interested in sitting next year, details of the exam are available on the exam page of the FESSH website.
Along with his plastic surgery colleagues Mr Ross Weale and Mr Richard Atkinson, Mr Muir has published his latest article on flexor tendon repair.
The article is available to read free on line in JPRAS Open
The British Society for Surgery of the Hand has published links relating to the safety of steroid injections (cortisone).
An editorial from the Bone and Joint Journal can be found by following this link.
The BSSH advice can be found here.
Mr Muir is offering steroid injections after appropriate discussion.
Mr Muir is grateful to his colleagues who have honoured him by electing him to the Council of the BSSH.
He will serve from 2021 to 2023
The above Lancet paper was picked up by Reuters and by Medscape.
The link to the Medscape article is here.
The full paper is available here free until 25 September 2020.
The results of the SWIFFT trial have now been published in the Lancet. The trial was masterminded by Professor Joe Dias from Leicester. Mr Muir and his team from Salford Royal contributed to the project.
The study examined whether surgery or plaster cast treatment give the best results in acute scaphoid fractures. Scaphoid fractures commonly affect young men and if they do not heal can lead to arthritis of the wrist. Careful treatment is therefore important.
The link to the paper summary may be found on this link.
The trial was picked up on the National Heath Executive publication Finger on the Pulse.
Mr Muir has contributed to the SWIFFT national trial on the management of scaphoid fractures. The paper has been accepted by the Lancet and will hopefully be published soon.
The trial was masterminded by Professor Joe Dias from Leicester and examined 439 patients with an acute scaphoid fracture, studying the relative risks and benefits of early fixation with a screw when compared with plaster cast treatment.
Mr Muir has been in Melbourne to give a talk in the session on education in hand surgery.
The 2020 session of the FESSH will be held in Basel.
Mr Muir has the honour of being on the scientific committee.
The link to the conference website is here.
